Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-01-07
Senator John A. Logan Dead.

A PROMINENT FIGURE PASSES
AwAY-A SLIGHT ATTACK OF
RHEUMATISM DEVELOPS INTO
SERIOUS ILLNESS AND TERMIN.
ATEs FATALLY.
Senator John 4. Logan, Of Hi
nois. died in Washington, shortly
before 3 o'clock on Sunday alter
noon, December 2Gth, Of rheuma-
tism OF the heart, after an Illness
Of about two weeks duration. The
news of his death spread very
quickly all over the city, and IN an
hour after hehad breathed his last,
groups of people were seen IN all
Dnhlic places discussing the partic-
ulars of his decease and own char
acteristics. Gen. Logan never
gave his age TO any OF his biogra'
pliers, and it has been for years a
standing comment that no one out
side Of his immediate family knew
his age. He and the late Governor
Swami, of Maryland, were for a
long time the only members Of Con
gress whose ages did not appear in
the sketches in the Congressional
Directory, but in more recent years
several others have followed their
example in this respect. The
guesses as to Gen. Logan's age have
ranged all the way from filty.fve to
seventy five years. He was proba-
blv sixty. He did not even look
this. lie had a most abundant suit
of coal black hair, with scarce "A
silver thread III It, which it was bis
habit when speaking to frequently
push back with his hand. His
swartby complexion and his
straight hair often caused the re-
mark that he must have Indian
blood in his veins, but it is not he
lieved that such was the case. Gen.
Logan has up to very recent 2e-
riod exhibited as Il uch strength and
vigor as most men of fifty years
and his appearance was always
that of "a man IN fine health. III
the last six or eight months he has,
however, felt signs of decayine
strength, and upon several coca
sions mentioned the fact to several
of his intimate friends. Last sum
mer and fall he took quite an ac
tive part in the campaign in Illinois
and after il was over he said he felt
Ike he was breaking down.
The news Of Gen. Logan's deatl
was received at the White IIons'
about $3.50 o'clock, and the sad in
telligcnce was Immediately com
municatcd to The President who j.
again confined TO his room by a re
currence Of his recent rheumatic At
tack. He WAS not able to leave
the Executive Mansion Sunday
When the President learned thai
rhematism had been the primary
! cause Of Gen. Iogan's sudden deatl
he di,played considerable anxiety
on the subject, and sought 10 gel
at the most minute details Of thc
d dead senator's fatal attack. The
{ condition Of the President IS not il
, any sense alarming, but Senator
! Logan's death renders him quite
, uneasy and apprchensiye Of sc
% vercr attack than that from whicl
Y he recovered but a few days ago.
t IN THE SENATE CHAMBER.
The hall of he 5 nate was taste
p fully though not claborately draped
Z and the chair Of the dead Senator
I the second of the intermOst roy
r from the centre aisle, was cOvereI
with Grape. The clerks desk wa
l almost hidden in a bank Of flora
r emblems, nanked on the right an
z left respectively by a huge ancho
- of white and immense represents
| ton of the badge Of the fifteent
army corps. Two or three hundre
7 additional chairs had been arranl
0 ed in rows for the Accommodate
;. of those who had been invited t
j. do honor to the deceased.
| TIE FUNERAL CEREMONIES.
l The funeral ceremonies We
y opened with a short prayer |
} Bishop ndrews. Rev. DIR. Ti'far
y next read the burial service of Il
% Episcopal church. Rev. DR.. Bu
Il lor, chaplain of the Senate, Tho
l. read in an impressive manner Il
IS fifteenth chapter of Corinthians
> DR.. Newman then delivered Il
o funeral serman as follows:
= DIR. NEwlIAN's ADDRESS.
Again in this chamber the shril
> of a nations dead. On those wal
- are again the emblemS of nation
Grief. Once more is heard Il
measured step of those who moul
~ the departure Of the faithful publ
" servant, the honored private cir
= =. zen, the abiding friend, the devote
. husband and loving father. On
. these are thus hOnOred at th
" shrine of the republic whose vi
- tues, whose sc.vices, whose talen
" have secured for them the disti
" guishcd position Of Senator of Il
, United States.
in Death is no stranger TO til
IL place OF supreme legislation. 5
49, times stree 1859, when this char
-, Der was first occupied, has
s. thrown his shadow here. lie